Publisher's Synopsis
Ten Lectures To Little Housewives On The Elements Of Crystallization. First published in 1866 and reprinted from the second edition of 1877. Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy, and his writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale, but in all his writings he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.
